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Hello, I'm Petrie11111. And now that you know a bit about me, lets get to the
guide!
This is a guide detailing a certian Acceleration Glitch for Castlevania:
Harmony of Despair on the Xbox 360.
In writing this guide, I'm going to assume you know about all of the DLC
chapters and characters. While this glitch can be performed offline and without
DLC, it's most useful in the later, more difficult DLC chapters.
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X-----What is this "Acceleration Glitch"?
It is a game-breaking glitch that alters your character's movement in such a
way that you can fly across screens, float up walls and pass through objects
completely. It is difficult to pull off, but it will save you time completing
stages, allowing you to skip large portions of a level. It is also quite fun
to mess around with when bored. If you've ever played Chapter 10 with random
players, there's a good chance you've seen the 'shortcut' to skip the majority
of the stage. This is the acceleration glitch.
The glitch occurs most commonly when, on the last frame of recovery from a long
fall or downkick, your character shifts from being on a floor to not being on a
floor. This can happen because either you slid off an edge at the exact end of
the recovery period, or because the platform disappeared beneath you on that
same frame.
Once you have the acceleration going, your character will begin flying at a
high speed across the room. If you hit a wall, you will begin 'riding the
wall', and may fly up or down until you hit a surface. If you ride up into a
ceiling, you may be forced out of the normal boundaries of the map, into the
wall. At this point the game will probably shoot you to the side in an attempt
to get you back 'within bounds'.
Whether or not any of this happens depends on many things, such as where you
activated the glitch from, how you started it, and sometimes even which
character you are!
X-----Sounds complicated.
At first, it is. But that's why I wrote this guide. I'm going to teach you
everything you need to know to go where you want, and describe step-by-step
how to activate and use it. (Additionally, I recommend you check out the youtube
channel of kuroiwahiryu. Everything will be in Japanese, however this man has
made many videos showing the glitch being activated pretty much everywhere, as
well as some other random glitches.)
Once you've done it this few times, you'll begin to understand whats going on.
X-----So how do I do it?
There are many ways to activate this glitch, which I'm going to call the
triggers. One is simple and is easy to nail 100% of the time. Others will have
you running the clock out trying to get one to happen. Some are even harder.
X-----Lets start with the easiest one.
Soma can use a puppet master to easily trigger the glitch on any moving
platform (including pendulums). What you need to do is throw a puppet so it
will land on a moving platform, then before the puppet lands, you need to jump
kick (straight down) a certian (long) distance. If you did it correctly, you
will switch mid-jump kick, and the glitch will activate, sending you flying to
the right. Actually, I'm going to go off on a tangent here and talk about jump
kicks for a bit. If you already know about the difference between short jump
kicks (used to triangle jump) and long jump kicks, you can skip this next
paragraph.
When a character jump kicks into the ground, one of two different things
happen, depending on the distance you kicked. If you start the kick close to
the ground, you will land on your feet, standing, ready to go. If you kick from
a higher position, however, you will have a few moments of 'recovery' wherein
you cannot do anything. Whenever I say 'long' jump kick, I am referring to one
where you travel at least this distance. So, back to soma puppets...
Let's go to chapter 1, since there's convienently a moving platform in the
first room! Start by killing all the enemies so they don't get in your way,
then what you're going to do is...
1: Position yourself on the larger middle platform, in the middle of the
platform, facing left.
2: Wait until the moving platform is at it's lowest position.
3: Jump and immeadiately throw a puppet.
4: Quickly double jump and jump kick straight down.
The puppet should hit the platform, and the glitch should have actiaved,
sending you flying to the right until you hit the floor and stop. THATS SOOO
COOL!!!!
If it didn't work:
1: If the puppet missed the platform, try starting a little more to the left
2: If your jump kick hit the floor before you switched, jump/double jump
higher.
3: If you didn't get to jump kick before you warped, you're going too slow.
Double jump faster!
4: If everything looked right and it still didn't work, you need to jump kick
sooner, since you need to have a long jump kick.
X-----Part 2: Riding a wall
"That's pretty cool," you say, "but I'm not flying up walls and going through
blocks! What gives?"
WE'RE GETTIN THERE! When you activate the acceleration glitch, your character
flies at high speed to the side, but is still affected by gravity. And once
you hit a floor, the glitch is done. However, if you fly into a wall, and
don't hit the floor for a period of time, you will actually begin to fly up
the wall! Why? I have no idea. But it happens.
Once again, if you have played Chapter 10 online, you have probably seen this.
If you haven't:
1: Start Chapter 10, get to the tall elevator shaft
2: Ride to the top, facing left
3: When your platform is in the top left corner, throw a puppet, then
immeadiately jump-double-jump kick straight down
If you were fast enough, the glitch acivates, sending you into the wall. After
a second or so, you begin flying up the wall, until you get to the door at the
top, where you land on the floor there.
At this point you can try to pass through the ceiling here. Activate the glitch
again, and just before you get to the floor that stops you normally, double
jump. You'll shoot up into the ceiling, get hit by the spikes, and knocked
completely into the room above!
X-----The Next Level of the Acceleration Glitch: Learning all the Triggers
So far I've only talked about soma and his silly puppet. That's because it's
the easiest way to trigger the acceleration glitch. However, you can only use
it on moving platforms, so that limits it's use. It's time for the next level.
X-----Soma Puppet Master
This is just here so this list will technically contain all of them. You really
want me to describe it again? Didn't think so.
X-----Falling on a platform
This is where things start to get difficult. What you need to do is fall (not
jump kick) a long distance to a platform that is moving upwards (or
left/right). Immeadiately before you actually touch the platform, move left or
right. This will cause you to slide on the platform a short distance. For the
glitch to activate, your slide has to take you to the exact edge of the
platform. If you get it right, on that last frame, you will fall off the edge
of the platform and get shot to the side (opposite in the direction that you
slid).
This is easiest to practice on Chapter 10, in the long elevator shaft. Ride to
the top, then drop straight down. Just before you touch the next platform down,
press either left or right. You want to slide as close to the edge as possible.
When trying to get this on a platform moving side-to-side, you must slide
opposite the direction that the platform is moving. Also note that it is
possible to get this trigger on a platform moving downwards, however
immeadiately after the glitch starts you will land on the same platform and
end the glitch.
X-----Long Jump Kick
This is the good one. With this you can activate the glitch off stationary
edges AND moving ones (platforms). Every character that can jump kick can
perform it. However, this is even more difficult than the falling trigger,
and can cause you to lose your sanity. I accept no responsibility if you
murder some kittens out of anger from failing too many times. With that out of
the way, let's go to chapter 6...
1: Kill the thunder demon. Directly under him is a table; stand behind
the pillar on the right side of it.
2: Jump, double jump (almost as high as possible), then diagonally jump
kick toward the table.
3: Here's the tricky part. You need your slide to go to the exact edge
of the table. THEN, on the exact frame you go off the edge, you need
to jump.
If you get it right, your character will pop into the air a little and fly
backwards at high speed, before hitting the hill and stopping.
This is VERY DIFFICULT. You need the exact distance of your slide as well as
the exact timing of the jump in order to trigger the glitch. It's going to take
a few tries (or a few hundred) before you get one.
However, once can you activate this one with any kind of consistency, you will
be well on your way to skipping entire stages.
X-----Character-specific triggers...
Jonathan
I. HATE. JONATHAN.
However, in terms of this glitch, he's one of the best. Jonathan can use both
his Sonic Strike and his Danger Knee to trigger the acceleration. And it's
somewhat simpler than using a jump kick! All you have to do is aim a Sonic
Strike/Danger Knee so that the entirety of the move takes you to the exact edge
of a platform/floor. Then, similar to the long jump kick trigger, you must
double jump immeadiately when you hit the edge.
The only downfall of these triggers is that you can't perform these on smaller
platforms. But once you get the distance of Sonic Strike down pat (if you don't
already know it), all you'll need to worry about is the timing of the double
jump, and you'll be glitching all over the place!
Shanoa and Julius
Let's play a game. What do these two have in common? If you said beards...wait,
I meant...
MAGNETS!
Yes, this trigger involves the use of magnets. If you have ever used a magnet,
you have probably noticed that upon landing, unless you jump kick, you have the
same 'recovery' delay as you do when falling a long distance. So guess what?
You get to use that delay to slide yourself...to an edge! And in accordance
with acceleration glitch guidelines, it must be the exact edge, and you must
double jump immeadiately. Also, you cannot touch any walls between the time
you jump from the magnet and the time you hit the ground.
This is definitely one of the more difficult triggers to get, and there aren't
many places where you can use this and not the long jump kick. So why do you
need to know how to do it? One reason: Julius. Everyone's favorite om-nommer
has a verrrrrry short recovery period after a long jump kick, making it nearly
impossible to get the long jump kick trigger to activate. So, the manliest of
men must use magnets.
Fuma and Maria
Let's play a game aga-
TINY!
Yes, they are both very small. And that gives them a slight advantage over
their taller companioins when it comes to the long jump kick trigger. You see,
there are a few places in the game where an edge has a ceiling at just the
right height to stop a soma from getting a long jump kick, yet a maria can
still get enough of a fall to slide. There's not many spots, but just know its
possible when you're about to give up on a corner because Alucard is too fat
to fit.
Richter
Richter can use his Spin Kick on the rotating platforms in Chapter 2 and 4 as a
trigger. You must go to the exact edge, but a double jump is not necessary due
to the platforms 'disappearing' underneath you. Not hard to pull off, and it
can actually be quite useful on 4 if you don't have a Soma with yoricks in the
group for whatever reason.
You can also get this trigger on horizontal spinning gears, by letting one take
you off its edge when recovering from the Spin Kick. Pretty nifty, but it's
just as possible to long jump kick most of them.
Soma
Wait, we already did soma, right? At least his puppet master soul. There surely
couldn't be another soma only trigger involving puppet master...
The good news is that its not really a new trigger. Just an alternate method
that allows you to get a few more edges. An edit of the long jump kick trigger,
if you will. What you do is throw a puppet so it will land near the target
edge, then jump kick somewhere else. When it warps, you will appear next to the
target edge, and begin the recovery slide immeadately. You still need to get
the exact distance to the edge, and still need to time the double jump
perfectly. This can be used to get some edges that are under a low ceiling,
but it is probably the most challenging way to trigger the glitch.
Soma has another trigger that involves the red breakable blocks on Chapter 3.
What you need to do is long jump kick STRAIGHT DOWN on top of one, WHILE FACING
LEFT. If you did it correctly, the glitch will activate. This is actually very
closely related to the original puppet master method, activating immeadiately
upon landing from the jump kick instead of after the ground slide, like most
other methods.
Charlotte
NATOOSH NATOOSH NATOOSH NATOOSH NATOOSH NATOOSH NATOOSH NATOOSH NATOOSH
Yoko
HOLY LIGHTNING HOLY FLAME HOLY LIGHTING HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY BLUE SPLASH
X-----A side note on jump kicks
Most players use the control pad as opposed to the analog stick for this game.
It makes triangle jumping easier and works better for the 2-D platformer genre
in general. However, you should be aware that using the analog stick for jump
kicks ALLOWS YOU TO AIM THE ANGLE of the jump kick. That means you can do near-
vertical jump kicks in order to trigger the glitch on a very small platform.
(It's even possible on the 1-block wide pieces at the top of Chapter 10!) Learn
to use it.
X-----Riding Walls
So now know how to trigger the glitch anywhere. What do you do next? Start
riding walls. Some facts about riding walls:
-The amount of time it takes you to begin moving upwards depends on what
trigger you used. Soma's puppet takes the longest, while it appears Jonathan's
Sonic Strike is the fastest (not 100% on this yet though).
-When riding a wall, you can perform any action that can normally be performed
in the air, such as attacks, skills, and your double jump (if still
available).
-Certian actions will kill the glitch and you will fall to the ground. These
include: Jump kick, throwing a puppet, Whip Tackle, Guard, Turtle Guard, and
getting hit by an enemy.
-You will ride up the wall until either the wall opens and connects to a floor,
or connects to a ceiling. If you hit a floor, you will launch out at high
speed but the glitch will be over. If you hit a ceiling that is a small
platform sticking out of the wall, chances are you will land on that platform
and the glitch will stop. But when you hit a large ceiling...
X-----To infinity?
If you ride a wall into a ceiling, the game appears to warp you around in a
small triangular shape, gradually increasing in size as you speed up. It
appears the game is trying to find you a floor to stand on, while keeping you
within the bounds of the level. It's quite impatient, however, and after a few
seconds of not finding you a floor the game will straight up shove you into the
ceiling! At this point you are 'in the wall'...this is where it gets real!
X-----In the wall
Once you are inside a wall, out of the bounds of the map, you can mostly watch
as you shoot across the map, hoping you go somewhere good. Some facts:
-You will be pushed to the left at a constant speed. The only exception is upon
first entering the wall, you may be forced to the right for about a second,
then be pushed back to the left, depending on which way you were facing when
pushed inside
-You will be forced to crouch. The only actions you can perform are your X/Y
attacks, your RB skill, and slide kicking. However...
-Every time you slide kick to the left, your character will be pushed back to
the right a small amount. You can repeatedly slide kick to move yourself in
that direction
-If you are Richter, you can do the sliding jump kick, which will push you
upwards a small amount
X-----Escaping the wall
-If at any point you are pushed into the bounds of the level, TA-DA! You're
free!
-If the upper half of your character's body is 'in the bounds' of the level,
simply press A to push yourself up into that room
-If you get hit by spikes/lava/other environmental trap, you will most likely
be pulled out of the wall and appear next to the trap you hit
-If you get hit by an enemy, you will not always be forced out of the wall.
You can, however, die 'in the wall' and be respawned at the beginning of the
level (assuming multiplayer)
-If you do not escape the wall and reach the edge of the stage, you can fly
infinitely out of bounds
-If you somehow manage to get yourself higher than the highest 'in bounds'
point on the map, you're pretty much done
X-----A note on Multiplayer
When doing this glitch online with friends, you may notice players flying
across the map from right to left very quickly repeatedly. How do you do that?
You can't. In reality, those players are just flying far off the left side of
the map in their game. But in multiplayer, you won't see that. The game will
display other players' characters as though the opposing boundaries are
connected (left-right and top-bottom). So that means when someone goes off the
left side of the screen, your game displays them coming in from the right, when
actually they are far off the left.
This can cause some funny things to occur, such as...
-A player will appear to fly through an enemy and damage it, but no damage is
actually dealt
-Enemies that track players may fly mindlessly back and forth attempting to
track down a glitching player
-Boss fights can be started early when no players have actually entered the
room
-Unfortuantely, the player cannot open chests simply because on their own
screen they are still far off the side of the map
X-----Places Where it is actually useful to Glitch
Chapter 4 - If for some reason you don't have a Soma with Yorick, and nobody is
waiting around for you to jump kick off of, you can long jump kick
the small spinning platforms (use the analog stick because they're
small). If you get one of the top two you can ride the wall up to
the book nearby.
Chapter 5 - Spawn # 4 can make use of the platforms to quickly ride the wall to
the top. A soma can puppet this one in a couple tries. Just put on
Buer so you don't get knocked off by something!
Chapter 6 - A Jonathan can go to the ledge nearest the second blue chest and
Sonic Strike it. Riding the wall there will either take you
straight to the boss door, or to an 'extra room'. In this extra
room you can trigger another glitch to be taken to the blue door!
Chapter 7 - On the right side of the pyramid, immeadiately upon entering, you
will be greeted by a cheerful Axe Knight...If your name is
Jonathan, kill that monster and Sonic Strike glitch on his ledge.
Slide immeadiately when you pop into the ceiling to come out near
AssTarts door!
Chapter 10 - This is Glitch City. Starting from the beginning...
- Soma can Yorick up to the tower beind the start. Long jump kick
using the analog stick for a small angle, and you can ride the
back wall all the way up into the boss room! If you are just under
the room and can't get in, slide into the door a couple times. You
will pop halfway out of the floor and can jump straight out!
- In the crown secret cave, glitch on the edge of the green chest.
You can ride the wall up and appear in the room above, skipping
the Medusa Queen!
- In the far top right corner of the map is a loney purple chest. Go
to the platform just to the left of it and glitch the right edge
to get into The Reaper's stage without killing The Creature or
The Count!
Chapter 11 - Just under Ryukotsuki's boss room is a long hallway sporting two
good-looking hellmonts. Stand as far right as you can, and glitch
the left edge. At this point you will be pushed into the ceiling.
There is about a 25% chance that you will be high enough to
actually hit the boss! Additionally, at this height, let yourself
go to the left a little and...bam! Knocked into the cloud room!
Its not over yet though. Run to the farthest left cloud, and
glitch the right edge. Now here comes a tricky part...you will be
forced into the ceiling here, but won't stay for long. You will be
pushed a short distance to the right, and then will begin moving
to the left. As soon as you start moving left, face left and start
sliding. You can push yourself all the way to the pit that drops
you into Ryu's chamber!
X-----Other methods to force yourself into a wall
So this is just so much fun that you want to know if you can do it even more?
Of course you can! Here's a couple simpler ways to get yourself outside the
boundaries of the stage. (Note that these have nothing to do with the
acceleration glitch.)
X-----Doors
1: Find a door that you can manually open and close with a switch, and that
closes by dropping from the ceiling.
2: Have a friend stand under said door and crouch
3: Close door!
Most places you can do this are on a small hill, so you are forced out of the
wall rather quickly. You can have a little fun on Chapter 9 at the top (next
to a green chest), and if you're lucky you can get out of bounds on 8 at the
bottom. Mostly useless though.
X-----Boxes on Chapter 2
1: Soma uses Medusa Head soul to float between a box and a wall, very close to
the ground
2: Push box into wall
Again, quite simple, but very limited in where you can do it.
X-----FAQ
1: What why am I doing a FAQ in a FAQ?
INCEPTION.
2: Ok I can't get the shortcut to work on 10, help!
That's not a question!
3: When trying to do the Chapter 10 shortcut, I don't get the glitch. My Soma
just falls straight down or moves a little to the left after the puppet
master warp. Why?
A - Because you are not jump kicking far enough before the puppet warps you.
B - Because you did a diagonal jump kick and not a straight one.
C - Because you suck.
4: I wanna hear about other cool glitches!!!
This game has far too many glitches to make a list here. Maybe one day I'll
write a guide on that subject, but for now...here's one of my favorites.
BLOOD CROSS
Do it when a Somaway is boss rushing Chapter 4. Wait until he enters boss room
for maximum effect.
5: STAROULITE DROPS HERE???
What?
6: This sounds confusing. Can I see videos of this being done?
As mentioned in the guide, check out the youtube account of KUROIWAHIRYU.
It's all in japanese, but most videos are of this glitch being executed in
every way imaginable.
7: How can I contact you? You're so cool/I need help!
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X-----Special Thanks
Everyone listed here has helped in some way or another, from sitting in
a lobby for hours while trying stupid things out to helping me get items
back after I stupidly erased my data.
Xul Lux
Hoobajabba
JarfOmega
AANXAAN
kuroiwahiryu
As well as anyone that has ever revived me in the game. WHICH IS ALOT.
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